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It’s Best of time again, and here are my best of choices from this past year. Best Song No question on this one. Someone Like You by Adele. With lyrics like regrets and mistakes, they are memories made, there is nothing more to be said. The only issue with this song is that they are playing it too much. They did that to Celine Dion’s song for Titanic and I wanted to shoot myself every time it came on the radio. Chris Martin (the ...read more I was never bothered by guilt over all the turkeys we put to death each Thanksgiving—a holiday that, as my cousin Gary pointed out to me over dinner last night, commemorates how our ancestors came here, stole food from the Indians, learned from them how to live off the land, and then slaughtered them like pigs. He said it just that way, too. Harsh. But this year, I’m having a bit of difficulty with the turkey thing. First of all, there was ...read more I love this movie. I’m going to go see it again, and then maybe one more time. It’s a chick flick with no romantic interest. Go figure. That alone makes it unique. It’s the story of David and Goliath, only they are baseball teams. It’s the story of a broken family. It’s a story of dreams unfulfilled. It’s a story about working together. It’s a story about believing you are right when there is no precedent for your ideas. So ...read more I know. I never heard of it either, but not only is fragging a real thing, it’s a really awful thing. I am in a screenwriter’s group. (Ok, although I’m in this group, I haven’t presented my screenplay yet. But writing it as if I were really ready to accept my Academy Award is tons of fun.) Last night, someone who had been in the military in Afghanistan was presenting his script and talking about how a new officer can come ...read more I am on the Cape for a good part of the summer, visiting with my mom and family and reconnecting with the summers of childhood that are imprinted so vividly on my memory. My mother’s family is from the Cape. They are Hinckleys (I guess I should say I’m a Hinckley too), and you all may remember from your history books that Thomas Hinckley was the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Yes, that Plymouth Colony. When I mention this, ...read more I get it. Ding dong, the witch is dead. Really? First, the man was the tallest man in the Middle East, tethered to a moving hospital, and it took us ten years to find him. The ‘greatest’ country in the world took ten years to find a man who was hiding in plain sight in a country that was supposedly our friend in a town where many retired Pakistani military live. In contrast to the image we had of him running ...read more Forty-three years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated. The way he lived was so much more interesting than the way he died, and in these early morning hours I find myself walking down memory lane, listening to his speeches. We all know his famous orations, in which he spoke of climbing mountains and hoping his children would be judged by the content of their character, but one interview stands out for me. He was asked about violence, and he took ...read more I was in the sixth grade fifty years ago when President Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” I remember our teacher wrote it on the blackboard in a bunch of ways. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” “Ask not what your family can do for you, ask what you can do for your family.” “Ask not what your friends ...read more Colin Firth, welcome to the big time. You are a magnificent actor and we expect you to rise to great heights from now on. No more Bridget Jones for you. Those days are over. Sure, there were signs (Pride and Prejudice), but nothing like the incredible breadth of this role and nothing as difficult to bring to us. Your performance in The King’s Speech is Oscar worthy, and perhaps even more important, worthy of being used as a teaching tool ...read more I have to review these two movies together because they are both about women in the seventies who stood out among women, bucked the conventional roles of women, and made us all better for it in the end. I cried all the way through Secretariat. What is it about horses? What is it about the way they stride forth that makes me want to do the same thing? To be extraordinary. Isn’t that the point for each of us? To find ...read more |
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